2nd Grade Op Art - Hidden Shapes

Second grade is the best! Look at how good they are...

  In this lesson, I used a PowerPoint from Ms. Brown's website http://www.mrsbrownart.com/2nd.htm which helped the students learn what Op Art is all about.  They also learned about Complementary colors  - if you stare at one color for a long time, sometimes you will see the opposite of that color when you stare into a blank space.  So hopefully when you stare at their pictures for long enough, the shapes will start to disappear!

Piet Mondrian

I love Piet Mondrian! I was able to teach a ton of the Massachusetts Framework Standards in this lesson.  We learned about Primary colors, Vertical-Horizontal-Diagonal lines, Abstract art and much more! It's SO pretty too!

Elmer the Elephant

Elmer the elephant is on of my favorite stories to read to my Kindergarten and 1st grade students.  Elmer is different from all of the other elephants, but the elephants love him because he is so special.  We made our own sponge painted Elmers! No "normal" colored elephants here.

Holiday fun!

My Special education students worked really hard on their Christmas scenes.  My favorite part is the collage tree using tissue paper!